The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man

Herman Melville

202 pages paperback 1857

66 editions

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
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Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and,...

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